Oranges and Lemons
Friends Bird and Greg are trying to become better thinkers by reading great works of literature. This podcast consists of their discussions of these works, in the hope that it would inspire readers and thinkers of all kinds to join the conversation. New episodes will generally be released on every third Saturday. Seinfeld references abound.
Episodes
11 episodes
Remembering Bird
Recorded 11/18/2023Website: www.orangesandlemonspodcast.com Email: orangesandlemonspodcast@gmail.com
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#9: Shame by Salman Rushdie
Published five years before his infamous Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie's third novel. It is written in his characteristic style of magical realism and explores the themes of shame, shamelessness, and violenc...
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#8: The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at NYU best known for his contributions in the field of moral psychology. He has written three books, including the highly regarded The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Pol...
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#7: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (1952) was Ernest Hemingway’s last major publication of fiction. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and is considered by many to be a classic of American literature. Topics discussed in...
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#6: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Written almost 2,000 years ago, Meditations is a collection of the private notes of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. While the author likely never intended his notes to be published, the collection has nevertheless become a cornerstone o...
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#5: 1984 by George Orwell
Often regarded as a standard of modern political literature, George Orwell's 1984 maintains broad cultural influence and recognition to this day. The novel depicts a terrible future in which totalitarian governments, bearing a strong r...
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#4: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one of the most recognizable and studied works of twentieth-century dystopian literature. In this episode, Bird and Greg discuss the novel, along with the author’s later essay, Brave New World Rev...
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#3: The Peregrine by J. A. Baker
J. A. Baker's The Peregrine, at its simplest, is a poetic journal of the author's observations of peregrine falcons one winter in England, but it is perhaps better described as an aesthetic meditation on life, death, the natural world,...
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#2: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Bird and Greg discuss Viktor Frankl’s Man's Search for Meaning.Website: www.orangesandlemonspodcast.com Email: orangesandlemonspodcast@gmail.com
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